With a big battle shaping up as the United Nations Security Council heads to a vote probably in November on Palestine's request for full UN membership -- a move that is described as the Palestinian "UN bid" for statehood, how is it that renowned international law expert John Quigly believes the State of Palestine already exists? In a visit to Palestine, the Professor explained...

Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, creating a giant refugee camp and calling it Palestine is not a humanitarian thing to do! In fact it is a criminal act and it must stop now! If it does not stop, if the blockade is not removed immediately, the world will treat Israel in much the same way Is...

In recent years Palestinian propagandists and their international supporters have attempted to brand Israel with the label of apartheid. In many international circles this political charlatanism has succeeded in giving the Middle-East's one and only democracy a black eye. However, if one begins to search for the truth, one finds that reality is quite the opposite of that which the Palestinians peddle to a very gullible world.

After President Barack H. Obama´s two major speeches about the Middle East, first at the State Department on Thursday, May 19, 2011, and then at the AIPAC convention on the next Sunday, May 22, 2011, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu´s two speeches, first at the AIPAC convention on Monday May 23, 2011, and then before a combined session of Congress on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, which followed his unusually forthright meeting with President Obama at the White House on Friday, May 20, 2011, we may ask where is the president trying to go on the Palestinian state question, and how likely is he to have any success, given Palestinian and Israeli positions. In the following essay, an analysis will be presented. The popular saying "only fools dare to tread where wise men fear to go" is probably applicable here.

Palestine is between the proverbial rock and hard place.  Israel has no interest in good faith, meaningful peace negotiations and continues to build settlements, slowly squeezing the Palestinians into smaller and smaller space.  At partition in 1947, the Jews were allotted 55 percent of Palestine.  ...

The off-again, on-again Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations have stalled again. During the lull between negotiations, Israel continues settlement construction in the Palestinian territories and east Jerusalem, lands the Palestinians claim for a future state. Clearly, Israel has no intention of ...

I stand by the people of Palestine, because they don't breach the international regulations. I stand by the people of Palestine, because they are standing on their own feet. I stand by the people of Palestine because they don't occupy, terrorize and massacre. I stand by the people of Palestine, because they don't pay the mainstream media to stage psychological warfare.

The State of Israel has consistently mistreated its human charges in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. According to international law, this abuse gives them the right to secede, by force if need be.

Leonard Cohen's current World Tour has been scheduled to end in Tel Aviv on 24 September. Once that concert was announced, supporters of a boycott against Israel due to its policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians asked Leonard Cohen to cancel the Tel Aviv event. Instead, it was announced, Leonard Cohen would add a performance in Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But, boycott supporters inside and outside Palestine have urged that the Ramallah performance be cancelled. The decision on this matter has been put in the hands of Qaddoura Fares, a prominent member of the "young guard" in Fatah, who said he wants the matter to be decided by the families of the 11,000 Palestinian prisoners now in Israeli jails. Qaddoura Fares says he has proposed that Leonard Cohen's concert in Ramallah be dedicated to the release of the Palestinian prisoners -- and also of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit, seized three years ago at the Gaza perimeter and presumably still held somewhere in Gaza. "They all deserve to be free", Qaddura Fares said.

Gruevski will go to a referendum on any compromise struck with Greece. It would be an unwise move, though: If the citizenry rejects the suggested deal, Gruevski will be faced with two stark alternatives: (1) To be the Prime Minister of a disintegrating country (as the Albanians will surely seek to secede from Macedonia or to federalize it, one way or the other); or (2) To lose his job altogether (as the Americans will surely seek to change the regime and depose him, as it has done in 2001-2 when it actively and successfully sought to unseat Ljupco Georgievski).

The West just isn't listening to what the Palestiania people actually want - the Hamas agenda for Israel.

In 1942, leading Zionists met in New York to formulate plans for a Jewish state. And by 1944, Jewish guerilla groups had broken their truce with British authorities and resumed bombings and other terror attacks, culminating in the assassination in Cairo of Lord Moyne, British Secretary of State in t...

It's taken a century and a half for the Arab Israeli conflict to get to where it is. It's worth remembering how it got here as we think how it might be finally resolved. We've all got a dog in this fight. It could put a choke hold on every economy from India and China to the United States and Western Europe.

The issues that started the conflict after the war in 1948 are still the basic problem.

Israel and Palestine: The conflict keeps going with no end in sight.

Both Israel and Palestine States are in the same boat. The international and regional development made the presence of one of them is necessary for the other. Failure to reach a solution for both states would simply force both people to live in a new one state. Palestinian cause is now at its l...

My right knee is wrapped. My left ankle is iced. I lost the nail on my right big toe, and have about 20 blisters and a similar number of bruises on both of my feet. This doesn´t even begin to convey half of the story of the punishment that my body has been subjected to in recent months. Why, y...

In five earlier articles, entitled "ICG Report Reveals Freemasonic Plans for Destruction of Turkey, Diffusion of Pseudo-Islamic Terror" (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/icg-report-reveals-freemasonic-plans-for-destruction-of-turkey-diffusion-of-pseudo-islamic-terror.html), "ICG Report Rejected as Fal...

President Bush sounded much less uncertain of his peace "vision" when he received Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on Sept. 25. Certainly much has changed since the Nov. 2007 conference in Annapolis, Maryland, where Bush and his secretary of state Condoleezza Rice exhorted that a ...

Decentralization has divergent meanings and serves different ideological interests. Generally, however, it seeks greater representation in development initiatives from the popular majority, the local poor, and from political, religious, ethnic, and tribal groups. The purpose of decentralizing...

A memorable quote in Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) still carries a wealth of relevance. He writes, "They own the [holy] land, just the mere land, and that's all they do own; but it was our folks, our Jews and Christians, that made it holy, and so they haven't any business to be there defilin...

By now, Israeli-Palestinian negotiations under the Annapolis process were supposed to be well underway and proceeding towards conclusion later this year or, at the limit, by the end of President Bush's term in office in January 2009. However, there is no progress reported. Yet, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is pushing a Palestine Investment Conference planned as part of the Annapolis process, that will be held in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, from 21-23 May. Bethlehem's Governor Salah Ta'amri, a senior and legendary leader of Fatah, says he supports the investment conference, although the situation, he said, is surreal, like a scene in a Checkov play.

The US refused a timetable for the negotiations to declare Palestine. The American foreign ministry spokesperson said that. Since Abbas and Olmart have started their meeting to solve their problems and to put a common document for the peace conference, it was clear that they would not agree about su...

The last time I spoke publicly in the United States before my current tour was nearly four years ago. During this time I had travelled the world, passing my message to people in nearly 20 countries. Wherever I went, my calls for justice for the Palestinian people and for global alternatives to racis...

The long bitter saga of DePaul University's scandalous decision to deny tenure to one of its most prolific and internationally renowned public intellectuals, Professor Norman Finkelstein, is officially over. But, not before bringing to light what some consider the most dangerous trend stifling intel...

The rash and self-defeatist behaviour emanating from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his close circle in the West Bank cannot possibly be intended for the benefit of the Palestinian people or for their internationally sanctioned struggle for human rights, freedom and equality. Ab...

The Hamas government crackdown on Mohamed Dahlan's corrupt security forces and affiliated gangs in the Gaza Strip in June appears to mark a turning point in the Bush administration's foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel. The supposed shift, however, is nothing but a continuation of Washingt...

Recently I traveled to Washington DC for the first time since I was ten. Taking in the monuments with a mature level of understanding was exhilarating; second only to having the knowledge to help my children experience their history. To gaze at the magnificence of Thomas Jefferson’s nineteen foot st...

Democracy has to recognize and respect political differences. That is what 21st century is all about- respecting individual, religious and political differences. Bush and Olmert have endorsed Abbas in his battle with Hamas for primacy, calling him a moderate voice among extremists and the only true...

The Stockholm air was too cold, even for the most animated speaker to excite a crowd. But I had little choice: thousands of anti-war protesters had descended on the capital’s main square to show their support of the Iraqi people on the four-year anniversary of the US invasion, and to demand an immed...

Back in the 20th century, one man, inspired hundreds of millions to march proudly, unarmed, peacefully, and stoically, into hails of police batons and sometimes bullets, to demand freedom. The Indian nation rose en masse, in peaceful civil disobedience, forcing the end of the British occupation. Mah...

(Ramallah, Occupied Palestine) -- As a first sign of economic improvement following the Mecca Agreement between Fatah and Hamas, the Palestine Securities Exchange (PSE) "Al-Quds Index" increased by (4.26%) compared with the last trading session. Dr. Hassan Abu Libdeh, PSE Chairman, said in a sp...

(Ramallah, Occupied Palestine) -- The Palestinian journalists in Gaza held a one-day strike in protest of the blasting attack on the Al Arabiya TV offices in Gaza, which occurred late Monday evening causing severe property damage but no injuries. The assault came a day after the failure of ...

?If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans for tomorrow? - Anonymous Hamas?, the militant Palestinian Organization, recent sweeping victory in parliamentary elections in Palestine sent shivers down the spines of many in the world. Election monitors from the EU and Jimmy Carter...